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Overview

Jonathan A. Warrick is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Jonathan A. Warrick has published in various scientific venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Warrick include:

  • Processing coastal imagery with Agisoft Metashape Professional Edition, version 1.6-Structure from motion workflow documentation (2021, Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World)
  • The future of coastal monitoring through satellite remote sensing (2022, Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures)
  • Fire (plus) flood (equals) beach: coastal response to an exceptional river sediment discharge event (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Fires, floods and other extreme events - How watershed processes under climate change will shape our coastlines (2022, Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures)
  • Littoral Sediment From Rivers: Patterns, Rates and Processes of River Mouth Morphodynamics (2020, Frontiers in Earth Science)

Collaboration is a consistent feature in Warrick's career, with frequent co-authors including Andrew C. Ritchie, Daniel Buscombe, Amy E. East, Kilian Vos, and Christopher R. Sherwood.

Best Publications

  • Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: Source-to-sink sediment budget and synthesis

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Jennifer A. Bountry;Amy E. East;Christopher S. Magirl

  • Hyperpycnal sediment discharge from semiarid southern California rivers: Implications for coastal sediment budgets

    Jonathan A. Warrick;John D. Milliman

  • A universal approximation of grain size from images of noncohesive sediment

    D. Buscombe;D. Buscombe;D. M. Rubin;J. A. Warrick

  • Trend analyses with river sediment rating curves

    Jonathan A. Warrick

  • River plume patterns and dynamics within the Southern California Bight

    J.A. Warrick;P.M. DiGiacomo;S.B. Weisberg;N.P. Nezlin

  • Suspended‐sediment rating curve response to urbanization and wildfire, Santa Ana River, California

    Jonathan A. Warrick;David M. Rubin

  • The role of effective discharge in the ocean delivery of particulate organic carbon by small, mountainous river systems

    Robert A. Wheatcroft;Miguel A. Goñ i;Jeff A. Hatten;Gregory B. Pasternack

  • Cobble cam: grain-size measurements of sand to boulder from digital photographs and autocorrelation analyses†

    Jonathan A. Warrick;David M. Rubin;Peter Ruggiero;Jodi N. Harney

  • New Techniques to Measure Cliff Change from Historical Oblique Aerial Photographs and Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Andrew C. Ritchie;Gabrielle Adelman;Kenneth Adelman

  • Measuring flood output from 110 coastal watersheds in California with field measurements and SeaWiFS

    Leal A.K. Mertes;Jonathan A. Warrick

  • Estimating suspended sediment concentrations in turbid coastal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel with SeaWiFS

    J. A. Warrick;L. A. K. Mertes;D. A. Siegel;C. Mackenzie

  • Morphodynamic evolution following sediment release from the world’s largest dam removal

    Andrew C. Ritchie;Jonathan A. Warrick;Amy E. East;Christopher S. Magirl

  • Sediment yield from the tectonically active semiarid Western Transverse Ranges of California

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Leal A.K. Mertes

  • Trends in the suspended-sediment yields of coastal rivers of northern California, 1955–2010

    J.A. Warrick;Mary Ann Madej;M. A. Goñi;R.A. Wheatcroft

  • Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: coastal geomorphic change

    Guy R. Gelfenbaum;Andrew W. Stevens;Ian M. Miller;Jonathan A. Warrick

  • Stormwater plume detection by MODIS imagery in the southern California coastal ocean

    Nikolay P. Nezlin;Paul M. DiGiacomo;Dario W. Diehl;Burton H. Jones

  • World’s largest dam removal reverses coastal erosion

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Andrew W. Stevens;Ian M. Miller;Shawn R. Harrison

  • Rapid formation of hyperpycnal sediment gravity currents offshore of a semi-arid California river

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Jingping Xu;Marlene A. Noble;Homa J. Lee

  • A conceptual model for river water and sediment dispersal in the Santa Barbara Channel, California

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Leal A.K. Mertes;Libe Washburn;David A. Siegel

  • Dispersal forcing of southern California river plumes, based on field and remote sensing observations

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Jonathan A. Warrick;Leal A. K. Mertes;Libe Washburn;David A. Siegel

  • Observations of coarse sediment movements on the mixed beach of the Elwha Delta, Washington

    Ian M. Miller;Jonathan A. Warrick;Chris Morgan

  • Characterizing the catastrophic 2017 Mud Creek landslide, California, using repeat structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry

    Jonathan A. Warrick;Andrew C. Ritchie;Kevin M. Schmidt;Mark E. Reid

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey J. Duda
Jeffrey J. Duda United States Geological Survey
Guy Gelfenbaum
Guy Gelfenbaum United States Geological Survey
Gregory B. Pasternack
Gregory B. Pasternack University of California, Davis
Miguel A. Goñi
Miguel A. Goñi Oregon State University
Robert A. Wheatcroft
Robert A. Wheatcroft Oregon State University
Alexander R. Simms
Alexander R. Simms University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrea S. Ogston
Andrea S. Ogston University of Washington
Christopher R. Sherwood
Christopher R. Sherwood United States Geological Survey
Libe Washburn
Libe Washburn University of California, Santa Barbara
Patrick L. Barnard
Patrick L. Barnard United States Geological Survey

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